In 2024, over half of the top 20 hottest open-source startups are involved in AI, including encryption projects like MyShell and Fuel

According to the 2024 Runa Open Source Startup Index (ROSS Index) report released by European venture capital firm Runa Capital, more than half of the top 20 most popular open-source startups worldwide are closely related to AI. The index uses GitHub "star" growth as a measurement standard, aiming to track the growth trend of commercial open source projects.

Ranked first is Ollama, a Y Combinator-backed company that provides tools for running large language models (LLM) locally. Its GitHub stars increased by 76,000, with a total exceeding 135,000. Zed Industries ranked second; its cross-platform collaborative code editor quickly gained 52,000 stars after going open source in 2024. LangGenius ranked third and developed an LLM application platform Dify with an annual growth rate reaching 326%, and its total star count has exceeded 84,000. In addition, ComfyUI and All Hands made it into the top five with generative AI tools and developer agent platforms respectively.

The report also shows that although AI and LLM continue to dominate, developer tools and self-hosted privacy protection tools have also received much attention. For example, Zed Stirling PDF and RustDesk all made it into the top ten. Meanwhile blockchain project Fuel indicates that there's still vitality in the crypto field.